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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point is, that if we can keep our Houses from being hot-houses, they may give us not just collegettes, but more college. Old Jawn may have less reason to feel indifferent, it is true, and may charm the world with fewer dilettantes. But we might have more good football. We might even play Princeton again, who knows? But we must eat out. That is some of the time. John Bliss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home Life | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...because it has always been the policy of the amateurs to let the pros do the experimenting. The innovation will this year get its share of watching and if it warrants adoption by the colleges it will certainly be introduced. At present however the intercollegiate coaches seem eager to keep the hockey game intact and interpret it correctly rather than adopt a doubtful improvement for the sake of the fans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Britain and France keep thousands of troops permanently stationed at strategic points throughout China† and war boats anchored off her principal ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Scorn for Stimson | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Secretary Hurley is a Roman Catholic. Washington, familiar with him for less than a year, predicted two things of his incumbency at the War Department: 1) Though the youngest of the Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier considering suggestions than issuing orders. 2) Not for many a year will the rank & file of the Army have known a Secretary so much of their own kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hurley of War | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...ride to covertside alone. "Keep at least a hundred feet behind him; then if a hound is emptying itself, you won't be so likely to override...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxcatcher Don'ts | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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